Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 6 | Animals of the Tropical Rainforest Habitat 119

Note: Introducing the Read-Aloud and Extensions may have activity

options that exceed the time allocated for that part of the lesson. To

remain within the time periods allocated for each portion of the lesson,

you will need to make conscious choices about which activities to

include based on the needs of your students.

Exercise Materials Details

Introducing the Read-Aloud

What Have We Already
Learned?

KWL Chart for the Forest Habitat;

Habitat Chart

Use either of these graphic organizers to

review content from Lesson 5.

chart paper to create Venn

diagram; Instructional Master 6A-1

You may wish to begin a Venn diagram to

compare and contrast the forest habitat

and the rainforest habitat.

Where Are We? Image Card 16 (Rainforest) , yarn,
world map

You may wish to connect Image Card

16 to a rainforest area on a world map

(Brazil in South America).

Vocabulary Preview: Tropical,
Rainforest

globe

Image 6A-3; additional images of

the rainforest and animals that live

in the rainforest

Purpose for Listening chart paper to make a Know-
Wonder-Learn (KWL) Chart

You may wish to create a KWL Chart

for the rainforest habitat. Ask students

what they know and wonder about the

rainforest. At the end of the lesson or on

the following day, have students share

what they learned about the rainforest.

Presenting the Read-Aloud (15 minutes)

Animals of the Tropical
Rainforest Habitat

You may wish to pause after Image 6A-7

and review the different plants found in a

rainforest before continuing on to Image

6A-8 and telling about the animals found

in a rainforest.

You may wish to conclude the read-aloud

with a short video clip of the rainforest

habitat.

Discussing the Read-Aloud (15 minutes)

Comprehension Questions Venn diagram You may wish to continue filling in the
Venn diagram to answer question #8.

Word Work: Canopy Image 6A-4

 Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day